Grade inflation tied to women in insecure teaching roles
Gender bias in student reviews leads vulnerable females to be more lenient in their assessments, large analysis finds
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Now is the time for action on the UK’s R&D spending target
The science base, public and private, needs certainty over how promised funding increases will be spent, says Chris Skidmore
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Students ‘twice as likely to cheat’ in online exams
Survey of German students finds higher levels of cheating during online exams than in on-site exams for the 2020 summer semester
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Scotland to ‘repair Brexit damage’ with £3 million research fund
Holyrood administration announces extra cash to assist with applications to Horizon Europe
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Mining executive Mackenzie to be ‘commercially minded’ UKRI chair
Shell chair and former BHP chief executive nominated to succeed Sir John Kingman
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Research intelligence: which Covid innovations should be embraced?
University staff are keen on hybrid working, but will it work long-term for researchers? Jack Grove examines which practices might outlast the pandemic
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Precarity means top students quitting academia, warns OECD expert
Report author says increasing funding would only lead to more insecurity, and culture shift is needed instead
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Digital infrastructure is crucial to scientific progress
Software tools need to be properly valued for their vital role in facilitating research, say Bilal Mateen and Tariq Khokhar
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Confirmatory research ‘boring and stressful’, says Harvard study
Shift towards studies using preregistered reports could inhibit scientific inquiry and harm researcher well-being, argue US scholars
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Indian academics fear for historic archive
Delhi redevelopment could put irreplaceable documents at risk, say scholars
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University Impact Forum focuses on quality education
THE’s next instalment in its Impact Forum series, in partnership with Western Caspian University, will discuss sustaining progress on SDG 4
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University of the South Pacific resolution hits another snag
Senior Fijian politician brands vice-chancellor’s new contract ‘illegal’ as council splits on national lines
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Books interview: Naomi S. Baron
The linguist and author of How We Read Now on the power of reading, what is lost when we rely on digital media, and the future of publishing
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‘Fortress Australia’ risk as collaborations get put on back burner
We are in danger of underselling ourselves to ‘like-minded countries’, Australian chief defence scientist warns
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Elite journals under scrutiny over role in Wuhan lab leak debate
Critics argue that The Lancet failed to disclose potential conflict of interest when dismissing the leak theory